I am using Final Version of YaBB but I am facing spams with my forum . What should I do for the prevention of my forum from spams.

The best thing you can do is to upgrade YaBB to the latest stable version, and then add at least one of the anti-spam mods that are available.

Meanwhile, if I remember correctly about that older version of YaBB, you can shut off its registration feature, and replace it with a clearly visible notice to let people know they can contact you to be registered. Have that notice click over to a post you'll have created that will have instructions about how to register.

Ask people to provide their chosen username, and let them know you'll be giving them a temporary password that they can change to one of their choice after they've logged into the forum.

Until our forum became inundated with spammers, I happily stayed with the version of YaBB that you use even though newer versions had been provided. I ended up upgrading that older version of YaBB to the 2.4 version our site still operates today.

Good luck!

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

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Brother I have used spam mod but my forum is full of spam messages and members

Out of curiosity, what anti-spam mod have you been using for your forum? I'm not aware of any anti-spam mods that could be installed for your version of YaBB, which is why I suggested that you upgrade your forum.

Happily as I understand it, the next version of YaBB will include ant-spam tools that will stop spam-bots cold.

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Bill Myers your reply was best and relevant to my problem Specially thanks to you

I'll try to once again give a public "you're welcome" since it's the right thing to do. But so far I've had a number of normal posts deleted from this topic, so who knows what's going to happen with this post?

Oh, and on the subject of spam, well, I think many of us feel the same way about what should be done.

Meanwhile, it's good to know that yet another YaBBer has been able to stop spammers cold.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

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Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

"Meanwhile, if I remember correctly about that older version of YaBB, you can shut off its registration feature, and replace it with a clearly visible notice to let people know they can contact you to be registered. Have that notice click over to a post you'll have created that will have instructions about how to register.

Ask people to provide their chosen username, and let them know you'll be giving them a temporary password that they can change to one of their choice after they've logged into the forum."

"Meanwhile, if I remember correctly about that older version of YaBB, you can shut off its registration feature, and replace it with a clearly visible notice to let people know they can contact you to be registered. Have that notice click over to a post you'll have created that will have instructions about how to register.

Ask people to provide their chosen username, and let them know you'll be giving them a temporary password that they can change to one of their choice after they've logged into the forum."

How can you add this note on the forum?

Open './Languages/English/Error.lng' and find:

Code

'registration_disabled'

Edit the text within the double quotes after the '=>' but do not use double quotes within the new text - you will break things. (If you absolutely must use double quotes within the quoted string, write them like ' \" ', not ' " '.)

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!